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Demobbed Coming Home After World War Two

Allport Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780300168860, Yale University Press, August 2010
288 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Snapshots of gaiety and celebration – the street parties, the victory speeches – are how some people today think of Britain in 1945. But the years following the end of World War II were far from a 'golden age' of pride and self-confidence. The countr...

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Medieval

Why Europe? The Medieval Origins of Its Special Path

Mitterauer Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226532530, University of Chicago Press, July 2010
400 pp., 23x15 cm

Why did capitalism and colonialism arise in Europe and not elsewhere? Why were parliamentarian and democratic forms of government founded there? What factors led to Europe's unique position in shaping the world? Thoroughly researched and persuasively...

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Rethinking France Les Lieux de memoire, Volume 4: Histories and Memories

Nora Pierre, Jordan David P.

ISBN: HB: 9780226591353, University of Chicago Press, July 2010
504 pp., 23x16.5 cm, 77 halftones

The fourth and final volume in Pierre Nora's monumental series documenting the history and culture of France takes a self-reflective turn. The eleven essays collected here consider the texts and places that make up the collective memory of the histor...

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Enlightenment and the Book Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and America

Sher Richard B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226752532, ISBN: HB: 9780226752525, University of Chicago Press, July 2010
848 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 tables, 45 halftones, 16 line illus.

The late eighteenth century witnessed an explosion of intellectual activity in Scotland by such luminaries as David Hume, Adam Smith, Hugh Blair, William Robertson, Adam Ferguson, James Boswell, and Robert Burns. And the books written by these semina...

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Political Science

Kirov Murder and Soviet History

Lenoe Matthew E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300112368, Yale University Press, June 2010
864 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Drawing on hundreds of newly available, top-secret KGB and party Central Committee documents, historian Matthew E. Lenoe reexamines the 1934 assassination of Leningrad party chief Sergei Kirov. Joseph Stalin used the killing as the pretext to unleash...

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Living Liberalism Practical Citizenship in Mid-Victorian Britain

Hadley Elaine

ISBN: HB: 9780226311883, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
400 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 halftones

In the mid-Victorian era, liberalism was a practical politics: it had a party, it informed legislation, and it had adherents who identified with and expressed it as opinion. It was also the first British political movement to depend more on people th...

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New World Gold Cultural Anxiety and Monetary Disorder in Early Modern Spain

Vilches Elvira

ISBN: HB: 9780226856186, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
368 pp., 21.5x14 cm

The discovery of the New World was initially a cause for celebration. But the vast amounts of gold that Columbus and other explorers claimed from these lands altered Spanish society. The influx of such wealth contributed to the expansion of the Spani...

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Hakluyt's Promise An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America

Mancall Peter C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300164220, ISBN: HB: 9780300110548, Yale University Press, April 2010
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 1 map, 44 black&white illus.

Richard Hakluyt the younger, a contemporary of William Shakespeare, advocated the creation of English colonies in the New World at a time when the advantages of this idea were far from self-evident. This book describes in detail the life and times of...

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Enlightened Pleasures Eighteenth-Century France and the New Epicureanism

Kavanagh Thomas M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300140941, Yale University Press, April 2010
272 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

Novelists, artists, and philosophers of the eighteenth century understood pleasure as a virtue – a gift to be shared with one's companion, with a reader, or with the public. In this daring new book, Thomas Kavanagh overturns the prevailing scholarly...

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Engineering the Revolution Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815

Alder Ken

ISBN: PB: 9780226012643, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
496 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 maps, 32 halftones

"Engineering the Revolution" documents the forging of a new relationship between technology and politics in Revolutionary France, and the inauguration of a distinctively modern form of the "technological life". Here, Ken Alder rewrites the history of...

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